The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-04
NO.

I think of the little child at the
moving of some goods from
store. The father was putting some rolls
of goods on the chid's arm, package after
package, and some one sa d: "Ihis child
is being overloaded, and so much QUE hb
not to be put upon her. wher the ch ID
responded: "Father knows how much
can carry;" and God, our Father, will not
allow too much imposition ON his children.
In the day of eternity it VIII be found
you had not one annoyance too many,
not one exasperation too many, not one
outrage too many. Y Your Heavenly Father
knows how much you can carry.
Again, we ought not to allow the pas
sage of the sunsek hour before the dis-
missal of all our affronts, becalse we
may associate the sublimest action
OF the soul with the suh.mest spec
tacle in nature. 1t is a most delight
some thing to have our personal expert
ences allied with certain objects. There
is tree or river bank where God first
answered your prayer. You will never
pass that place or think of that place
without thinking of the glorious COM
munion. There was some gate or some
room or some garden walk where you
were afTlanced with the companion who
has been your chief Joy in lile, You
never speak of that place but with a smile.
Some of YOU have pleasant memories con-
nected with the evening star, or the moon
in its first quarter, or with the sunrise,
because you saw it just as you were ar
irving at harbor after tempestuous voy-
age.
Forever and forever, o hearer, associate
the sunset with your magnanmous, out
and out unlm tied renunciation Of all
hatreds and forgiveness of all foes. 7 adj
NIT it is the most difficult of all graoes to
practice, and at the start you may make a
! -
tempt to practice it. Shakespeare wrote
ten plays before he reached Merchant of
Venice, twenty-eight plays before no
reached Macbeth. And gradually you
will come from the easier graces to the
most difficult Beside that, It is not a mat
ter Of personal determ nation so much as
the laying hold Of the almighty arm
of God, who viii help US to
do any thing we ought 70 do.
Remember that in all personal controver-
sizes the one least to blame will have to
take the first step at pacification, if it is
ever effective. The contest between
Eschines and Aristippus resouuds
through history, but Aristippus, who was
least to blame, went TO AEschines and
said: "Shall we not agree to bo friends
before we make ourselves tho laughing
stock of the whole country" And Als-
chimes said: "Thou art a far better man
than /, for began the quarrel; but thou
hast been the first in healing the breach"
And they were always friend afterwards.
So let the one of you that Is least TO b. 'ame
take the first step toward concilia-
tioD. The one most in the wrong
will never take it. Oh, 10 makes
one feel splendidly to be able, by Gods
help, to practice unlimited fopg gveness.
1t improves ones body and soul II will
make you measure three or four more
inches around the Ghost, and improve
your respiration so that you can take a
deeper and longer breath. 10 improves
the countenance by scattering the gloom
and Frightening the forehead, and loosen
ing the pinched look about the uostril and
lip, and wakes you somewhat like God
himself.
He is cmnipotence, and we CON not COPY
that He is independent of a tho uni-
verse, and not ccpy that.
he Is creative, and we can not copy
thot. he is omnipresent, and we can
not copy that. But he forgives with
broad sweep all faults and all
neglects and all insults aud all wrong
doing, and IN that we may copy him with
mighty success. Go harness tha subj me
action Of your soul to an hour when the
cato of Heaven opens TO let the day pass
into eternities, aud some of the giories es-
cape this way through the brief opening.
We talk about the Italian sunsets, and
sunset amid the Apenuines, AMI sunset
amid the Cordilleras. But / will tell you
how you may see grander sunset than
any mere lover of nature ever beheld;
that is by finging into 10 all your hatreds
and animosities, and lot the horses of
fire trampIe them, and the churiot5 Of fire
roll over them, and the spearmen
OF fire stab them, and the beach
of fire consume them, and the bill
lows of fire overwhelm them. The
q a sr
The sublimest thing you can do is forgive
ness. Along the glowing banks of this
coming evening let the divine aud the hu-
man be concurrent
Againi We should not let the sun 20
down on our wrath, because IT Is Of little
Importance what the world says Of you or
does to you when you have tho aflluen6
God of the sunset as your provider and
defender. People talk as thou b 10 were
a fixed spectacle Of nature and always tho
same. But no one ever saw two sunsets
alike: and If the world has existed six
thousand years there have been about two
million one hundred and ninety thousand
sunsets, each Of them as distinct from
all the other pictures IN tho gallery ~
the sky as Ttiau's "Last Hupper,' ku-
bens' descent From the Cross" RHphaaPs
stTransf fguratlon" and Michael Engelo's
"Last Judgment" are distinct from each
other. If that God Of such infinite
resources that no can put on the wal Of
the sky ench night more than the Louvre,
and the Luxembourg, and the Vatican
and the Dresden, and Venetian galleries,
all in one, is my God and your God, our
provider and protector, what is the use OF
our worrying about any human autagon-
ismf IF we are misinterpreted, the God
Of the many coored sunset can put the
right color on our action. II He can
afford to hang such masterpieces
over the outside wall Of Heaven
and have them obiteratcd IN an hour, he
must be very rich in resources, and can
put us through in safety. ii all tho garnf-
ture Of the western heavens at eventide rs
but the upholstery Of one Of the windows
of our future home, what small business
for VS. 90 be chasing enemiesi Let not this
Sabbath sun go down upon your wrath.
Mohammed said: "1he sword IS the KEY
Of Heaven and hell; q drop OF blood shed
is better than fasting, and wounds Ia tho
Day Of Judgment resplendeut as ver-
million, and odoriferous as musk" But,
my hearers, in the last day we
viii find just the opposite Of that
10 bs true, and that the sword never I'm.
locks Heaven, and that he who heals
wounds IS greater than Lee who makes
them, and that on the Same ring--are twos
keye: Gods forgiveness Of us and our for
giveness of enemies, and these two keys
unlock Paradise.
And now ! wish for all Of you e. beauti.
full sunset In your earthly existence. with
some Of you it has been n long day Of
trouble, and with others Of you i5 will be
far from calm. when the sun rose at
six O'clock IL was the morning Of
youth, and a fair day was prophesied,
but by the time monday Of mid-life had
come and tine clock of your earthly exist
enca had struck twelve, cloud racks gath
cred and tempest beloved ia the track OF
tempest. But as tho evening Of OLD age ap-